The Health and Malnutrition Crisis, a Health Emergency: how should we respond?
Posted on Monday, January 23rd, 2012
The Hunger and Malnutrition Crisis, A Health Emergency:
How should we respond?
No therapy in retail
Posted on Sunday, January 8th, 2012
by Dr Vandana Shiva
In November 2011, when the UPA government announced in Parliament that it had cleared the entry of big retail chains like Wal-Mart and Tesco into India through 51 per cent FDI in multi-brand retail, it justified the decision saying that FDI in retail will boost food security and benefit farmers’ livelihoods. But the assurance that FDI in retail would ease inflation did not resolve the political crisis the government was facing; it deepened it. Parliament was stalled for several days of the Winter Session after which the government was forced to withdraw its decision.
Food Politics: How the present National Food Security Bill will deepen Food Insecurity
Posted on Thursday, December 29th, 2011
by Dr Vandana Shiva
The Food Insecurity context
With every 4th Indian Hungry, and every second Indian child severely malnourished and “wasted” Indian faces a major crises of food and nutrition security.
Monsanto Seed MoUs with Rajasthan Agricultural Universities Cancelled
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011
MONSANTO’S SEED MOU’s WITH RAJASTHAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITIES CANCELLED
Press Release
As announced by Dainik Bhaskar on November 8, 2011, The MOU’s of Monsanto and other Seed Companies with Rajasthan Agricultural Universities have been cancelled.
“The 99 per cent” Dr Vandana Shiva’s latest article on the Asian Age
Posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Nov 09, 2011
Vandana Shiva
On May 15, 2011, young people occupied the squares of the cities in Spain. They called themselves the “Indignados” — the indignant. I met them in Madrid where I was attending the meeting of the scientific committee that advises the Spanish Prime Minister, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Their declaration states: “Who are we? We are the people; we have come here freely as volunteers. Why are we here? We are here because we want a new society that gives more priority to life than to economic interest.”
The GMO Emperor has no clothes featured on the Daily Mail
Posted on Friday, October 28th, 2011
“Super weeds ‘run rampant in fields near GM crops’, scientists warn”
By SEAN POULTER, The Daily Mail, 21st October 2011
The Ecologist: “Campaign hero: Vandana Shiva, anti GM activist and head of Navdanya”
Posted on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
Vandana Shiva explains to the Ecologist how the global anti-GM food movement resonates with the Occupy Wall Street protests
Rosie Spinks: Tell us about Navdanya’s new report? What is the main message you want to get across about GM food?
Navdanya’s work featured in Livemint: “Navdanya – A non chemical green revolution”
Posted on Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
By promoting organic farming, this organization hopes to help Indian farmers become self-sufficient
by Rudraneil Sengupta
Thakur Das, 62, sifts through unhusked grains of basmati on the terrace of his two-storeyed house on the outskirts of Dehradun. The floor of the terrace is a carpet of gold—his rice harvest spread out to dry in the crisp September sun. Das’ basmati is special. It’s grown from indigenous seeds that make the Dehradun variety of basmati one of the best known in India, in soil that has no chemical fertilizers or pesticides.
Bhoomi: Learning from Nature, Remembering Tagore
Posted on Monday, September 26th, 2011
Navdanya and India International Centre are pleased to invite you to
Bhoomi: Learning from Nature, Remembering Tagore
a day long Festival organised in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture (GoI) featuring panels, theatre and film, music and dinner on October 1st at IIC, New Delhi
Seeds of Injustice: Dr Vandana Shiva’s latest article on the Asian Age
Posted on Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
by Dr Vandana Shiva
As posted on the Asian Age, September 14, 2011
There is an intense scramble for the earth’s resources and ownership of nature. Big oil, big pharma, big food, big seed companies are joining hands to appropriate biodiversity and biomass — the living carbon, thereby extending the age of fossil fuels and dead carbon. Corporations view the 75 per cent biomass used by nature and local communities as “wasted”. They would like to appropriate the living wealth of the planet for making biofuels, chemicals and plastics. This will dispossess the poor of the very sources of their lives and livelihoods.